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Ameek Bhalla
Experience
Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology
Senior Research Fellow (Genomics)
New Delhi, India
Present - 2017
- Designed, executed, and analyzed quantitative genetic experiments, containing 480,000 data points, to infer the heritability of metabolic traits
Graduate Research Fellow (Computational Biology)
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2017 - 2015
- Implemented mixed models to handle nested data, increasing statistical power by 1000%
- Invented techniques for mass production and processing of biological replicates, resulting in the publication of two research articles
Project Manager (Diabetes Genetics)
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2015 - 2012
- Operationalized a government project (CSIR, India) by managing procurement, troubleshooting protocols, and training five new colleagues
- Evaluated 50 candidate genes for diabetes using 200 transgenic constructs in Drosophila
Cureus Inc.
Freelance Content Editor (Medicine)
Palo Alto (remote)
Present - 2020
Scored a 4.9/5 from authors for critiquing the statistics, data visuals, and semantics of 150 manuscripts, along with an international team
Cactus Communications Pvt. Ltd.
Freelance Copy Editor (Molecular Biology)
Mumbai (remote)
2020 - 2017
- Boosted the readability of 300 manuscripts from more than 10 developing countries, enhancing their acceptance by life science journals
Indian Institute of Science
Research Assistant (Alzheimer Genetics)
Bangalore, India
2012 - 2007
- Pioneered a low-cost technique for measuring long-term memory of classical conditioning in Drosophila
Education
Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology
Ph.D. candidate, Computational Biology/Genomics
New Delhi, India
2021 - 2015
University of Delhi
Postgraduate diploma, Biochemical Technology
New Delhi, India
2007 - 2006
University of Delhi
BSc (honors), Biomedical Sciences
New Delhi, India
2006 - 2003
Peer-reviewed Publications
Paternal inheritance of diet induced metabolic traits correlates
with germline regulation of diet induced coding gene expression
Teltumbade M, Bhalla A, and Sharma A; Genomics, 112:567-573
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2020
Transgenerational inheritance of cold temperature response in Drosophila
Karunakar P, Bhalla A, Sharma A; FEBS Letters, 593:594-600
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2019